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18 Aug 2017 1:15:41pm

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Thanks for a great program! I grew up in East Germany, though not in Berlin, and remember that day well. I was 17 and had never known a world without the wall. It was pure euphoria! I now live in Australia and I still brag about sitting on the wall in 89. I took my kids to see the wall, but it was hard to explain to them what that wall meant to us. I guess they won't understand till they're older. They have never known a system where one can't speak his mind, is forced to lie at school and isn't allowed to travel freely. I am glad that the history is kept alive in Berlin.

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